| George C. Allen | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Cumberland University | |
| Sport | college football | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 0-1 | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1916 | Cumberland University | |
George C. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of This is a list of American institutions of Higher education in the United States and abroad sorted by region This institution is unrelated other than by similarity of name to University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg Kentucky or Cumberland School of Law College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of This institution is unrelated other than by similarity of name to University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg Kentucky or Cumberland School of Law Allen was the head football coach for Cumberland College Bulldogs in Lebanon, Tennessee for one game in 1916. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies Coach (baseball|Coach (basketball|Coach (ice hockeyIn Sports a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction instruction and training of the operations This institution is unrelated other than by similarity of name to University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg Kentucky or Cumberland School of Law Lebanon is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the United States. [1] Cumberland University suffered the greatest loss in the history of college football to Georgia Tech by a score of 222 to zero. The October 7, 1916, American football game between the Georgia Tech Engineers and the Cumberland College Bulldogs (now Cumberland University The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, or Tech, is a public, Coeducational Research university in [2]
Cumberland had actually discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. Georgia Tech coach John Heisman insisted on the schools' scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 (considered a sizeable sum in 1916) to Tech if its football team failed to show. John William Heisman ( October 23, 1869 &ndash October 3, 1936) was a prominent American football player and College football [3]
George Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland's football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a scrub team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland's football team and were soundly beaten 222 to zero and saved the college $3,000 in the process. [4]
Cumberland would not play football again until 1920. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar [5]
Allen went on to a prominent career in politics. [6]
References
- ^ Cumberland University The Game of the Century
- ^ Gergia Tech Alumni Cumberland 0, Tech 222
- ^ Sports Illustrated Football's Glorious Slaughter
- ^ New York Times, "In 1916, a Blowout for the Ages", Litsky, Frank, October 7, 2006.
- ^ Cumberland University Athletics Football history
- ^ Time Magazine "The Regular Guys"